Mbappé fires back at Paraguayan senator’s racist attack after France victory

France striker Kylian Mbappé hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her as a “despicable woman” on Monday after she launched a racist attack on him following Paraguay’s elimination from the World Cup.

France striker Kylian Mbappé hit back at a Paraguayan senator, describing her as a “despicable woman” on Monday after she launched a racist attack on him following Paraguay’s elimination from the World Cup.

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Mbappé‘s penalty proved the difference in a bruising and ill-tempered match as France won 1-0 in Philadelphia on Saturday to advance to the quarter-finals.

Celeste Amarilla wrote a long, racist tirade on X, describing Mbappé as a “colonized Cameroonian, desperately trying to pass himself off as French,” and as a “brute” who had not learned to write.